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The  One  Hundred  and  First 
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ST.  PAUL’S  CHURCH,  AUGUSTA,  GA. 
April  22,  23,  24,  1923 


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The  One  Hundred  and  First 
Annual  Convention 


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THE  PUHLICITY  DEPARTMENT 

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J'HE  BISHOP  AND  EXECUTIVE  COUNCH. 
OF  THE  DIOCESE 


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l^ishop  Stephen  Klliott 
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IJishop  Jolin  Watrus  Beckwith 


Bishop  C'lelancI  Kinloch  NelsdU 


Bishop  Frederick  F.  Reese 
IBOS- 


strenjjtli  and  hifi::her  hopes  for  a  new  and  jirreater  eenturv  of  conquest  for 
Christ  and  Jdis  Church. 

“We  welcome  with  all  our  hearts  the  re})resentatives  of  the  Church  School 
Service  League  and  its  Senior  De])artment,  the  Young  People’s  Service  Lea¬ 
gue.  This  is  the  sure  enough  Convention.  Here  is  the  Church  of  tomorrow. 
For  all  the  generations  of  the  past  we  have  brought  our  children  along 
through  the  Sunday  School  uj)  to  Confirmation  and  the  adolescent  age  and 
then  forgotten  all  about  them.  At  last  we  have  found  them  and  they  are 
glad  to  be  found.  They  have  youth  and  life  and  energy  to  give  to  the  Church 
and  all  they  ask  is  to  be  shown  how.  'I'hey  are  here  and  we  ought  to  thank 
(rod.  It’s  our  job  to  kee]i  them  and  we're  got  to  move  to  do  it.” 

St.  Paul’s  Church  is  well  equipjied  for  a  convention  headquarters,  but 
even  with  the  space  offered  by  this  parish  it  was  hardly  adequate  for  the  many 
activities  of  this  unusual  occasion,  as  four  large  meetings  were  in  session  on 
the  two  days  following  the  ojiening  services.  Nothing  could  have  surpassed 
the  hospitality  of  the  parish  nor  the  competency  of  the  Rector  and  Com¬ 
mittees  who  worked  so  well  and  arduously  to  make  the  celebration  the  honor 
that  it  is  to  the  Diocese. 


ST.  PAUL’S  CHURCH,  AUGUSTA  1819 

St.  Paul's  was  a  Colonial  C'hurcli  under  the  English  Crown;  was  established 
under  (leneral  ()glethor])e,  at  Fort  Augusta,  afterwards  called  Fort  Corn¬ 
wallis.  in  wa.s  the  last  stand  of  the  Britisli  in  a  l)loody  battle  at  .\ugusta, 

when  the  town  was  caj^tured  hv'  Eight  Horse  Harry  Eee.  'I'he  site  of  the 
F'ort  is  marked  by  a  Celtic  Cross  erected  hv  the  Georgia  Society  of  the  Colonial 
Dames  of  vVmerica. 

The  Log  C'hurch  erected  in  1750  was  destroyed  during  the  Heyolution.  In 
I7S0  a  frame  building  was  erected  which  was  remoyed  in  1810  to  giye  ]>lace 
to  the  brick  Colonial  Church,  'i'his  was  destroyed  by  tire  together  with  a 
n(“w  Parish  House  in  lOlO.  Since  that  time  the  ])resent  Church  and  Parish 

Ihmse  have  been  built,  the  exterior  of  the  ('hurch  being  almost  a  fac-similc 

of  the  one  destroyed.  'I'he  ('on\ention  of  1823  was  held  in  this  ('hurch. 


OPENING  OF  THE  CENTENNIAL 


Tltp  C'cMitonnial  oprnpd  ^iunday  morning,  April  22,  with  a  celehration  of 
the  Holy  ('onimunion,  tiu*  Kt.  Hpv.  H.  .L  Mikpll,  D.D.,  being  the  celebrant. 
This  service  was  particularly  intended  as  a  Corporate  C'onnnunion  for  the 
Church  Sch(M)l  Service  League  and  the  ^'oung  People’s  S<‘rvice  League. 

At  11:15  o’clock  the  service  of  Morning  Prayer  was  held.  .\t  this  sessitm 
the  church  was  })acked  and  chairs  were  placed  in  the  aishvs  to  acconunodate 
th<*  crowd. 

rhe  procession  moved  from  the  Parish  House,  to  the  west  (hK)r  of  the 
church  and  marched  up  the  central  aisle,  t«)  the  chancel,  singing  the  hymn, 
“Oh,  ’twas  a  Joyful  sound  to  hear.” 

First  came  the  vested  choir  of  men  ajul  women  preceded  by  the  (.'riicifer, 
then  came  rejiresentatives  of  the  Vestries  of  Christ  C'hurch,  Savannah  and  of 
St.  Paul’s  Church,  Augusta,  and  luemhers  t»f  the  Standing  ('ommittees  t)f 
the  DicK’cses  of  CJeorgia  and  Atlanta.  I’nfortunately  no  members  of  the 
vestry  of  Christ  C’hurch,  Frederica,  the  third  of  the  (iriginal  parishes  were 
able  to  he  ])resent.  'I'lien  followed  the  clergy,  white  and  colored,  and  after 
them  the  Kt.  Rev.  Kirkman  (1.  Finlay,  D.D.,  Kishop  of  l’p])er  South  Caro¬ 
lina;  the  Ht.  Rev.  Albion  W.  Knight,  D.D.,  sometime  Rishoj)  of  C'uba  and 
Vice  Chancellor  «)f  the  I'niversity  of  the  South;  the  Rt.  Rev.  Henry  .1.  .Mikell, 
D.D.,  Bishop  of  .\tlanta,  and  the  Rt.  Rev.  Frederick  F.  Reese,  D.D.,  the 
Bishop  of  the  Diocese. 

rhe  sermon  was  preached  by  tbe  Bishoj)  of  the  Diocese  and  was  a  brief 
r«*view  of  the  history  of  the  F  iocese  from  its  organization  making  especially 
note  of  its  progress  under  the  leadershij)  of  its  former  Bishops,  Klliott,  Beck¬ 
with  and  Nelson. 

'I'he  Di(X’esan  was  alsu  the  celebrant  at  the  Holy  Communion  and  assisted 
l)y  the  visiting  Bishops,  the  Bishop  of  Cpper  South  Carolina,  reading  the 
Fpistle,  and  IBshop  Knight  the  Gospel. 

'I'he  President  of  the  National  C’ouncil,  the  Rt.  Rev.  I'homas  F.  (bailor, 
D.D.,  LL.D.,  S.'l'.D.,  the  Bishop  of  'I'ermessee,  was  to  have  been  an  honored 
guest,  but  the  venerable  and  greatly  beloved  Presiding  Bishop,  the  Rt.  Rev. 
Daniel  Sylvester  'I'little,  D.D.,  LL.D.,  D.C.L.,  having  died  the  first  of  the  week, 
he  was  detained  by  attemlance  on  tbe  .Memorial  Service  held  at  W’asbing- 
ton,  I).  C. 

For  tbe  Fvening  Service  the  church  was  again  crowded  and  addresses 
were  made  by  Bisho))  Mikell  and  Dr.  William  (’.  Sturgis,  Kducational  Se¬ 
cretary  of  the  Department  of  .Missions  of  the  National  Council.  'The  offer- 
t(»ry  was  given  to  the  building  fund  of  St.  .I«>hn’.s  Church,  .Moultrie. 


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MUSICAL  PROGRAM 


CENTENNIAL  SERVICES 

DIOCESE  OF  GEORGIA 
1823-1923 

ST.  PAUL’S  CHURCH,  AUGUSTA,  GEORGIA 

Rt.  Rev.  Frederick  F.  Reese,  D.D.,  Bishop 
Rev.  G.  Sherwood  Whitney,  M.A.,  Rector 

THIRD  SUNDAY  AFTER  EASTER,  APRH.  TWENTY-SECOND 
The  Services  at  Eleven-Fifteen  O’Clock 

MORNING  PAYER  AND  HOLY  COMMUNION 

Organ  Prelude.  Finlandia . Sibelius 

Processional  Hymn  493. — “O  ’Twas  a  Joyful  Sound  to  Hear” . Parker 

Venite.  Exultemus  Domino . -Boyce 

Psalter  .  Psalm  84 

Jubilate  Deo . Nevin 

Introit.  “God  So  I.oved  the  World” . Stainer 

Kyrie  Eleison  . ■- . Barnby 

Gloria  Tibi  . Tolin 

Hymn.  450 — “All  Hail  the  Power  of  Jesus  Name” . . . Holden 

Sermon.  Rt.  Rev.  F.  F.  Reese,  D.D . . Bishop  of  Georgia 

Offertory  Anthem.  “Send  Out  Thy  Light” . Gounod 

Doxology . -- . -- . ..Old  Hundred 

Sanctus  . Garrett 

Agnus  Dei . Gounod 

Gloria  in  Excelsis . Old  Chant 

Sevenfold  Amen  . Stainer 

Nunc  Dimittis  . -....-....Harris 

Recessional  Hynm  397— “O  What  the  Joy  and  the  Glory  Must  Be’” . 

. . . ..Indent  Plain  Song 

Organ  Postlude.  Great  Fuge  in  G  Minor . J-  S.  Bach 

THE  EVENING  SERVICE  AT  EIGHT-FIFTEEN  O’CLOCK 

Organ  Prelude.  Suite  Gothique . Boellman 

Processional.  Hymn  311. — “Ancient  of  Days” . 

Hymn  253 — “Fling  Out  the  Banner  Let  it  Float” 


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Hymn.  24-9  “()  /ion  Haste” . ]\  aJch 

*()flFertorv  Anthem.  Hynm  459 — “O  Worship  the  King” . Maunder 

Presentation  of  Alms.  Hymn  478  -“Holy  Offerings  Rich  and  Wixve" ..Readhead 

Sevenfold  Amen . Stainer 

Recessional  Hymn  582 — “Stand  U]i,  Stand  Up  for  Jesus” . Stainer 

()r}>;an  Postlude.  Fantasie  in  G  Minor . Fricker 


*The  congregation  is  invited  to  join  in  singing  the  1st,  3rd  and  last  verses 
of  the  Offertory  Anthem.  The  last  verse  to  he  sung  in  unison. 

Geo.  1>.  Johnson,  E.  S.  Bothwell, 

Oiujanist.  Choir  Director. 

'J'he  choir,  augmented  for  the  occasion  by  members  of  the  other  Augusta 
choirs,  rendered  especially  heautifid  programs  for  both  services. 

At  9:30  o'clock  Monday,  Morning  Prayer  was  read  and  at  10  o'clock  the 
Bishop  formally  o])ened  the  one  hundred  and  first  Diocesan  Convention,  which 
continued  in  session  with  intervals  until  Tuesday  afternoon. 

THE  CENTENNIAL  PAGEANT 

Prohal)ly  no  where  else  in  the  Diocese  could  a  more  beautiful  spot  have 
been  found  for  the  Pageant,  combining  both  an  historic  and  ])icturesque  back¬ 
ground,  than  the  churchyard  of  St.  Paul's,  the  site  of  old  Fort  Augusta,  on 
the  hanks  of  the  Savannah  River.  This  elaborate  Pageant,  ])re])ared  and 
produced  by  the  Department  of  Religious  Education,  was  given  on  Monday 
afternoon,  before  an  audience  of  1000  people. 

Assisted  by  the  Bishop,  Mr.  Whitney,  Mrs.  Craig  Barrow  and  Mrs.  Mal¬ 
colm  Bell,  of  Savannah,  and  oth.ers,  the  Reverend  W.  Aimison  Jonnard,  Kixecu- 
tive  Secretary  of  the  Department,  compiled  tlie  })ageant,  and  supervised 
the  whole  production  which  was  directed  by  Mr.  and  Mrs.  W.  J.  Cartier  of 
the  Augusta  Community  Service.  Two  hundred  and  fifty  persons  beautifully 
costumed,  took  part,  and  as  character  after  character,  and  scene  after  scene, 
passed  in  review,  a  deep  S])irit  of  reverence  j)ervaded  the  assemblage.  When 
the  final  tableau  was  presented,  depicting  the  Spirit  of  the  Church,  a  young 
girl  l)earing  aloft  the  Cross,  with  the  National  and  State  Flags  borne  by  two 
other  girls  on  each  side  of  her,  the  Bishop  in  the  center  of  the  tableau,  the 
entire  audience  rose  and  joined  in  the  singing  of  the  Doxology.  It  was  a  most 
inspiring  scene  indeed,  and  a  fitting  climax  to  the  two  days’  celebration. 

The  })rolocutor,  who  was  the  Reverend  W.  W.  Meminger,  Rector  of  All 
Saints’  Church,  Atlanta,  read  the  lines  most  beautifully,  and  his  well-placed 
and  unusually  fine  voice  carried  to  the  far  ends  of  the  grounds. 


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CHRIST  CHURCH,  SAVANNAH,  1833 


'I’he  Colony  of  Georgia  was  founded  by  English  Colonists  under  General 
Oglethorpe  in  1788.  The  Rev.  Henry  Herbert  came  with  Oglethorj^e  as 
Cha])lain  and  held  the  first  services  of  the  Church,  returning  soon  to  England 
on  account  of  illness. 

'I'he  Rev.  Jolm  Wesley  arrived  in  Feb.  178(;,  ie)naining  less  than  two  years, 
estahlishing  the  first  Sunday  School  in  the  world.  He  was  succeeded  in  1788 
by  the  Rev.  George  Whitefield,  who,  though  a  great  evangelist,  sjient  most  of 
his  time  and  eloquence  in  establishing  the  Rethesda  Orphanage  which  is  still 
flourishing. 

The  most  effective  work  of  colonial  times  was  done  by  the  Rev.  Bartholo- 
men  Zouberbuhler,  a  Swiss  by -birth,  whose  Rectorship  extended  from  1746‘  to 
176(i.  During  this  time  the  first  Christ  Church  was  built  in  1750.  Enlarged 
in  17(>(),  burned  in  1796,  rebuilt  during  the  years  1801-1806  and  replaced  in  1888 
by  the  present  structure. 


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THE  DIOCESAN  FAMILY  DINNER 


The  rays  of  the  setting  sun  had  scarcely  shed  their  beams  on  the  final 
tableau  of  the  Pageant,  when  the  Bishop  and  his  “Diocesan  Family”  gathered 
for  the  Convention  dinner  tendered  by  St.  Paul’s  and  given  at  the  Partridge 
Inn,  Over  two  hundred  and  fifty  sat  down  in  this  sociable  way  and  enjoyed 
a  beautiful  dinner,  at  small  tables,  the  speakers’  table  seating  fifteen  or 
twenty.  Mr,  Whitney,  as  Rector  of  the  Parish,  was  toastmaster,  and  fulfilled 
this  duty  with  delightful  geniality  and  spontaneous  wit.  Before  the  addresses, 
Mr.  Whitney  called  on  all  those  who  had  been  confirmed  by  the  four  Bishops 
of  Georgia  to  stand.  First  those  who  had  been  confirmed  by  Bishop  Elliott, 
and  three  women  stood;  then,  by  Bishop  Beckwith,  and  thirty-three  responded 
by  Bishop  Nelson,  and  there  were  forty-five  present,  and  by  the  present  Bishop 
fifty -five.  Special  guests  of  the  Centennial,  were  Miss  Sarah  Barnwell  Elliott 
of  Sewanee,  daughter  of  the  first  Bishop,  and  Mrs.  A.  11.  Lawton  and  Miss 
Elizabeth  Beckwith,  daughters  of  the  second  Bishop,  who  occupied  seats  at 
the  Speakers’  Table.  Mrs.  Nelson,  widow  of  Bishop  Nelson,  was  unable  to 
be  present.  Mrs.  Reese  sat  on  the  Bishop’s  left,  with  Mr.  Whitney  on  his 
right,  and  Mrs.  Whitney,  was  on  the  right  of  Mr.  Whitney.  The  first  address 
was  made  by  the  Bishop  who  spoke  of  the  joy  the  whole  Centennial  was 
giving  him,  especially  the  opportunity  of  having  so  many  of  his  “family” 
surrounding  him  on  this  occasion.  Bishop  Mikell  followed  and  paid  a  beau¬ 
tiful  tribute  to  the  Bishop,  who  “though”  he  said  “could  not  be  the  Bishop 
of  Atlanta,  was  the  Bishop  of  its  Bishop,”  as  in  all  perplexities  and  difficul¬ 
ties  when  he  needed  advice,  he  turned  to  the  Bishop  of  Georgia.  Miss  Sarah 
Elliott,  gowned  in  the  insignia  of  the  doctor’s  degree  conferred  on  her  by  the 
University  of  the  South,  in  an  able  address  recalled  the  life  of  her  dis¬ 
tinguished  father.  Bisho])  Guerry  was  the  last  speaker,  and  he  like-wise 
])aid  tribute  to  the  Bishop  and  his  Diocese,  and  just  before  the  close  of 
file  ]irogram,  Mr.  Whitney  introduced  Mr.  Benjamin  F.  Finney,  the  Vice 
Chancellor  of  the  University  of  the  South. 


THE  WOMAN’S  AUXILIARY 

At  the  Woman’s  Auxiliary  meetings,  following  reports  of  the  year’s  work, 
an  address  on  Prayer  was  made  by  Dr.  Sturgis,  and  others  who  addressed 
these  sessions  were  the  Bishop,  Bishop  Finlay,  Bishop  Guerry,  Mrs.  A.  M. 
Waddell  of  the  Diocese  of  East  Carolina,  Miss  Edith  D.  Johnston,  Executive 
Secretary  of  the  Diocesan  Nation-Wide  Campaign  Department,  and  the  Rev. 
J.  Henry  Brown,  Archdeacon  of  the  Colored  work. 

THE  CHURCH  SCHOOL  SERVICE  LEAGUE 

I  he  delegates  to  the  second  annual  meeting  of  the  Church  School  Service 
League  were  the  superintendents  and  teachers  of  the  Church  Schools,  and  at 
their  sessions  the  question  especially  discussed  was  the  one  of  week-day  sessions 
of  the  schools.  An  especially  interesting  address  was  made  by  Mrs.  A.  Davis 
Taylor  of  Tennessee. 


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THE  YOUNG  PEOPLE’S  SERVICE  LEAGUE 


One  of  the  most  inspiring  features  of  the  Convention,  aside  from  the  his¬ 
torical  sentiment  in  connection  witli  the  Centennial,  was  the  presence  of  so 
many  young  people,  full  of  enthusiasm.  They  held  their  own  business 
meetings  and  joined  in  the  special  services  and  entertainments  when  all  of 
the  Convention  delegates  were  l)rought  together.  Their  ban(]uet,  given  on 
Saturday  evening,  was  a  most  interesting  occasion. 

The  first  part  of  the  evening  was  given  over  to  fun  and  merriment,  and 
the  walls  rang  with  the  cheers  and  rollicking  songs  that  created  a  spirit  of 
informality  and  joy.  The  presiding  officer  was  Thomas  Marion  Johnson,  pre¬ 
sident  of  St.  Paul's  I.,eague,  and  he  presided  with  the  ease  of  an  experienced 
toastmaster.  At  the  conclusion  of  the  dinner,  Mr.  Johnson  introduced  the 
special  speakers  who  represented  three  districts  in  the  Diocese,  Barron 
Howard  of  Savannah  who  spoke  on  the  sid)ject:  “The  Church — Our  Mother”; 
Miss  Elizabeth  Matthews,  of  Augusta,  on  “We — The  Church’s  Children”;  and 
Clark  Gurley,  of  Bainbridge,  on  “Non  Sibi,  Sed  Alliis.”  Following  these  talks, 
the  Rev.  Mr.  Jonnard  read  a  most  impressive  pageant  and  Bishop  Mikell  was 
then  called  on  and  said  he  had  been  asked  to  bridge  the  chasm  between  the 
song  “Skin-a-ma-Rink”  and  the  serious  side.  Our  Bishop  gave  the  final 
thought,  and  the  whole  company  then  adjourned  to  the  church  where  Dr. 
Sturgis  conducted  a  preparation  for  the  next  day’s  corporate  Communion. 

THEIR  BUSINESS  MEETINGS 

Sunday  afternoon,  Mr.  Jonnard  was  the  chairman  of  an  interesting  meet¬ 
ing  and  at  this  session  presented  the  prize  for  the  Program  Contest  offered  by 
the  Department  of  Religious  Education  for  the  best  progranv  for  a  Y.  P.  S. 
Ij.  meeting.  The  prize,  a  gold  cross,  was  won  by  Miss  Nell  Green,  of  St. 
Paul’s,  Augusta. 

At  the  business  session  the  next  morning,  following  a  suggestion  of  the 
Bishop’s,  concurred  in  by  Bishop  Mikell,  at  the  banquet,  a  Georgia  inter¬ 
diocesan  Y.  P.  S.  ly.  was  organized,  with  one  president  and  secretary,  and 
diocesan  vice  presidents,  secretaries  and  treasurers. 

CHRISTIAN  SOCIAL  SERVICE 

The  Diocesan  Department  of  Christian  Social  Service  held  a  Conference 
on  Sunday  afternoon  at  the  Churcli  of  the  Good  Shepherd,  where  the  vice- 
chairman,  the  Rev.  H.  Hobart  Barber,  is  Rector.  An  address  was  made  by 
the  Rev.  George  Croft  Williams,  of  Columbia,  S.  C.,  who  is  secretary  of  the 
State  Board  of  Public  Welfare,  and  after  the  conference  an  informal  meeting 
was  held,  and  Mr.  Barber  heard  reports  from  the  parishes  and  missions  re¬ 
presented. 

EXHIBITS 

Two  exhibits  were  shown  in  the  Parish  House,  one  by  the  Department  of 
Religious  Education,  including  hand  work  made  by  the  Church  School  Sei- 
vice  League,  not  only  in  tlie  Diocese  of  Georgia,  l)ut  also  in  the  Diocese  of 


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Atlanta,  and  also  one  by  the  Pnblieity  I)e])artinent,  which  exhibited  charts 
on  C'lnirch  publicity  and  adverti.sinfr,  cli}p>infr  books  of  Diocesan  publicity, 
and  one  from  the  National  De])artnient  on  the  Cieneral  Convention  publicity, 
together  with  a  table  of  free  literature. 

PUBLICITY  FOR  THE  CONVENTION 

Antieipatin^  that  the  })ublicity  for  the  Convention  would  require  organized 
and  systematic  effort,  the  Publicity  De])artment  made  arrangements  with  the 
local  authorities  to  handle  ])ublicity  in  a  business-like  way.  The  methods 
of  the  National  De])artment  used  in  Portland  for  the  General  Convention  were 
ado])ted  on  a  small  scale.  A  ])ress  room  was  equipped  with  typewriters  etc., 
and  there  was  a  ])ublicity  staff  of  five  who  acted  as  “a  source  of  news”  for 
siqiplying  the  local  re})orters  with  correct  infornration  of  the  proceedings  of 
the  several  meetings.  During  the  three  days  of  the  Centennial,  the  local 
press,  'riie  .\ugusta  Chronicle  and  The  Augusta  Herald,  devoted  thirty-seven 
columns  of  space  to  the  Convention  and  attendant  features,  besides  con¬ 
siderable  advance  ])ublieity. 

THE  COLORED  COUNCIL 

In  order  to  take  part  in  the  Diocesan  Centennial  and  to  have  0])portunity 
of  hearing  some  of  the  s}>eakers  on  the  Centennial  j>rogram,  the  Council  of 
Colored  Churchmen  of  the  Diocese  met  for  its  eighteenth  annual  council  in  St. 
-Mary’s  Church,  Augusta,  April  22-24.  The  Council  had  the  largest  atten¬ 
dance  in  the  history  of  its  organization,  there  being  forty-five  present.  The 
Woman’s  Auxiliary  made  the  most  distinctive  advance.  Its  annual  offering 
at  the  Cor})orate  Communion  was  $235.00  to  be  distributed  as  follows: 
St.  Athanasius’  School,  Brunswick,  $101.00;  scholarship  for  theological  students, 
$80.00;  the  Mission  at  Pennick,  Glynn  County,  Georgia,  $10.00.  The  most  con¬ 
structive  stej>  taken  was  the  election  of  a  Social  Service  Agent  for  the  colored 
work.  Addresses  were  made  by  Bisho}>s  Mikell,  and  Finlay,  Dr.  Sturgis, 
Kev.  S.  B.  McGlohon  of  Savannah,  and  Mrs.  Waddell,  who  addressed  the 
Woman’s  Auxiliary. 

FORWARD  FOR  THE  NEW  CENTURY 

With  our  heritage  from  the  })ast  may  we  not  take  a  forward  look  for  the 
new  century,  believing  that  we  are  indeed  at  the  threshold  of  a  new  era?  'I'he 
])rogram  of  the  Church  for  carrying  on  her  Mission  is  opened  out  before 
us  and  who  can  hesitate  to  answer  the  call  to  arms  and  to  gird  himself  for 
the  battle?  So  holding  before  us  our  marching  orders, — 'Fhe  Church’s  Pro¬ 
gram — may  this  Diocese,  led  by  our  beloved  Bishop  as  (’onimander,  leap  on¬ 
ward  and  ever  onward  through  these  next  years  that  are  ours  to  use,  in  such 
a  way  as  never  before  dreamed  of  in  this  dear  old  Diocese  of  Georgia,  with 
the  Bishop’s  text  to  guide  us. 


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CHRIST  CHURCH,  FREDERICA,  1885 


In  178()  General  ()gletlu)r})e  began  to  build  the  town  and  Fort  of  Frederica 
on  St.  Simon’s  Island  as  a  protection  against  the  Spaniards.  He  was  ac¬ 
companied  by  his  Secretary  and  Chaplain,  the  Rev.  Charles  Wesley,  who 
for  a  short  time  gave  the  services  of  the  Church  to  the  pco])le. 

From  that  time  on  until  the  Revolution  the  Church  was  su}>plied  with 
Missionaries  by  the  Society  for  the  Propagation  of  the  Gos})el.  Among  them 
John  Wesley  and  George  Whitefield  came  over  from  Savannah  to  officiate. 

The  first  Church  was  built  of  tabby  and  was  a  combination  chapel  and 
store  house.  The  second  Church  called  the  Bee  Hive  Church  was  erected  in 
1820.  The  present  Church  was  erected  in  1885. 

Further  details  of  the  history  of  these  three  Churches  and  of  the  Diocese 
will  be  found  in  a  phamphlet  entitled  “How  the  Church  Came  to  Georgia,”  by 
Rev.  Jas.  B.  Lawrence,  Secretary  of  the  Diocese. 


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THE  BISHOP’S  HISTORICAL  SERMON 


“The  Lord,  our  God,  be  with  us,  as  He  was  with  our  Fathers.” — 1 


Kings 


8:5. 


“The  special  event  which  we  are  conimeinorating  today  is  the  organization 
as  a  diocese  of  the  Church  in  Georgia,  which  was  accomplished  in  St.  Paul’s 
Church,  in  this  city  on  Feb.  24,  1823. 

“The  review  of  a  hundred  years  in  the  time  usually  allowed  to  a  sermon 
is  manifestly  impossible,  except  in  the  most  cursory  fashion.  For  that  reason 
I  shall  only  briefly  allude  to  the  history  of  the  Church  previous  to  that  date. 

“We  all  know  that  when  Oglethorpe  landed  with  his  colonists  in  1733,  he 
brought  with  him  a  priest  of  the  Church  of  England,  the  Rev.  Henry  Her¬ 
bert,  D.D.,  and  that  a  succession  of  clergymen  served  with  intervals  as  chap¬ 
lains  and  pastors  to  the  people  until  the  War  of  Independence.  Included 
among  these  were  the  world  famous  men,  John  and  Charles  Wesley  and 
George  Whitefield,  the  founder  of  Bethesda,  and  one  other  entitled  to  honor¬ 
able  mention  for  his  faithful  service  of  twenty  years,  the  Rev.  Bartholomew 
Zouberbuhler,  during  whose  ministry  the  first  Christ  Church  in  Savannah, 
begun  in  1740,  was  finally  completed  in  1750. 

“The  results  of  the  War  of  Independence  were  as  elsewhere  to  leave  the 
Church  in  a  discouraged  and  depressed  condition.  There  were  but  three  con¬ 
gregations  in  the  State,  one  in  Savannah,  one  in  Augusta,  and  one  on  St. 
Simon’s  Island.  Without  organization  and  without  a  Bishop,  these  parishes 
maintained  an  inde})endent  but  uncertain  existence.  In  1815  Bishop  Dehon 
of  South  Carolina,  visited  Savannah  and  consecrated  the  church  there  and 
confirmed  fifty  persons  presented  by  the  rector,  the  Rev.  Walter  Cranston. 
This  was  the  first  confirmation  ever  held  in  Georgia.  In  1821,  Bishop  Bowen 
of  South  Carolina,  consecrated  St.  Paul’s  Church,  Augusta,  and  in  1823  at 
Savannah  confirmed  seventy-eight  persons,  presented  by  the  Rev.  Abiel  Carter. 

“In  the  meantime,  however,  the  faithful  few  had  made  the  first  effort  to 
find  each  other  in  the  unity  of  the  Church.  For  on  Feb.  24,  1823,  three 
clergymen  and  six  laymen  (not  five  as  usually  stated),  met  in  St.  Paul’s  Au¬ 
gusta,  and  organized  a  convention  and  a  diocese.  They  were  the  Rev.  Abiel 
Carter  of  Christ  Church,  Savannah;  the  Rev.  Hugh  Smith  of  St.  Paul’s  Au¬ 
gusta,  and  the  Rev.  Edmund  Matthews  of  Christ  Church,  St.  Simon’s  Island. 
The  laymen  were  Dr.  J.  B.  Read  and  Peter  Guerard  from  Christ  Church, 
Savannah;  John  Course,  Edward  F.  Campbell  and  Dr.  Thomas  I.  Wray  from 
St.  Paul’s  Augusta,  and  later  during  the  session  Dr.  W.  M.  Parker  from  Sa¬ 
vannah.  The  Rev.  Mr.  Carter  was  elected  president,  and  Dr.  Wray,  secretary. 
They  proceeded  with  great  dignity  and  due  formality  to  conduct  their  business, 
as  though  the  convention  was  a  regular  occurrence.  They  adopted  rules  of 
order,  and  a  constitution  and  canons  for  the  government  of  the  diocese,  elected 
a  standing  committee,  acceded  to  the  constitution  of  the  Protestant  Episco¬ 
pal  Church  in  the  United  States  and  elected  deputies  to  tlie  next  General  Con- 


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vention.  Bishop  Bowen  was  formally  invited  to  ])erform  Ej)iseopal  offices  in 
the  State  in  accordance  with  the  canons  of  the  Church. 

“But  they  were  not  content  to  do  the  formal  things  necessary  to  ])erfect 
an  organization.  They  knew  that  throughout  the  State  there  were  scattered 
groups  and  individual  members  of  the  Church  and  they  drew  up  an  ‘Address 
of  the  First  Convention  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church  for  the  state  of 
Georgia’  to  their  scattered  hretliren.  In  this  address  they  said  that  the  pre¬ 
sent  was  an  interesting  era  in  the  local  historv  of  their  venerable  Church  and 
marked  the  dawn  of  a  brighter  day;  that  she  was  now  ‘as  a  city  that  was 
at  unity  with  itself.’  They  thanked  God  that  He  had  preserved  her  members, 
few  and  as  strangers  in  the  land,  ‘in  their  attachment  to  her  pure  and  pri¬ 
mitive  princi]>les.’  They  reminded  them  that  it  was  their  duty  and  their  pri¬ 
vilege  to  be  ‘fellow  workers  with  God’  in  building  up  and  extending  the 
Church.  ‘It  was  the  Church  of  their  fathers,’  they  wrote.  ‘Her  ministry  is 
Apostolic,  her  constitution  primitive,  her  services  are  fervent  and  animated, 
yet  chastened  and  reverential,  her  doctrines  were  the  doctrines  of  the  Bible, 
tbe  doctrines  of  tbe  Cross.’  They  reminded  them  also  that  they  were  engaged 
in  a  work  for  which  posterity  would  bless  their  memory.  They  knew  that 
there  were  difficulties.  Their  number  was  small  and  the  individuals  scattered. 
But  the  obstacles  were  not  insurmountable.  ‘Despondency  itself,’  said  they, 
‘must  become  sanguine,  when  it  inspects  the  record  of  past  ]n’oceedings.’ 
They  did  not  wish  to  be  considered  as  evincing  ‘sectarian  narrowness,’  but  they 
reminded  the  people  ‘of  the  exclusive  claims  of  their  own  Zion  u])on  their 
lil)erality,’  for  her  wants  were  ‘various  and  pressing  and  they  entreated  the 
‘zealous  co-operation’  of  their  brethren  ‘in  this  work  of  faith  and  labor  of 
love.’  And  like  practical  men  they  gave  the  name  and  address  of  the  secre¬ 
tary  and  the  president  of  the  Standing  Committee  to  whom  communications 
and  inquiries  might  be  addressed. 

“One  other  thing  these  nine  men  did,  was  to  ado])t  a  constitution  for  a 
society  ‘for  the  General  Advancement  of  Christianity  in  the  State  of  Georgia.’ 
This  society  was  to  promote  the  extension  of  the  Church  ‘to  its  destitute 
members  tbroughout  the  State’  and  ‘for  the  distribution  of  ]>rayer  books  and 
religious  tracts.’  Two  dollars  entitled  to  membership  and  $10  at  any  one 
time  constituted  a  life  member  and  of  tbe  life  membership  receij)ts  they  ])ro- 
vided  that  three-fourths  should  constitute  a  ])ermanent  fund. 

“Thus  begun  the  organized  life  of  the  Church  in  this  State,  a  few  faithful 
men,  full  of  courage  and  faith,  with  a  cheerful  confidence,  who  believed  in 
God  and  loved  the  Church,  faced  the  issue  and  difficulties  that  seemed  almost 
insurmountable.  The  po})idation  of  the  State  in  1823,  was  a])proximately  390,- 
000  and  there  were  about  131  communicants  or  one  to  nearly  3,000  of  the 
population.  Doubtless  there  were  (juite  a  number  of  communicants  scattered 
throughout  the  state  of  whom  no  record  was  possible.  In  1825,  three  parishes 
reported  104  communicants. 

“'I’he  society  for  the  advancement  of  Christianity  was  not  idle,  but  with 
funds  collected  from  the  ])eople  they  engaged  a  missionary,  the  Rev.  Lot 
Jones,  who  came  from  the  Eastern  Diocese.  '1  he  first  reeorded  result  of 


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his  activity  was  the  organization  of  a  parish  in  Macon,  called  Christ  Church, 
which  in  1825  was  admitted  into  union  with  the  convention,  with  nine  com¬ 
municants  and  of  which  Mr.  Jones  became  the  first  rector. 

“I  am  sure  that  we  Cleorgians,  who  are  here  today,  the  ])osterity  to  whom 
these  men  referred  in  the  ‘address’  do  “bless  their  memory.”  Now  that  they 
have  been  long  “laid  low  in  the  grave”  as  they  wrote,  we  are  reaping  ‘fruits 
of  righteousness  and  joy  and  peace  from  that  seed  which  (they)  cast  into  the 
ground.’  We  may  still  be  in  comparison  with  the  vast  population  of  our 
State  and  its  tremendous  moral  and  religious  issues  a  small  and  feeble  folk, 
but  at  any  rate  we  are  relatively  much  stronger  than  they,  and  we  do  have, 
if  we  will  recognize  it,  the  encouragement  and  strength  which  comes  to  us 
from  a  well-organized  and  living  national  Church. 

“The  seed  thus  planted  in  1823  continued  to  grow,  though  but  slowly,  as 
might  be  ex]H*cted  without  the  leadershi]>  of  a  Bisho]).  In  1840  there  were 
eight  clergymen  and  323  communicants  and  the  ratio  of  the  population  was 
reduced  from  one  in  3,000  to  one  in  2,141.  This  year  the  eighteenth  annual 
convention  assembled  in  Clarkesville  on  May  4th.  There  were  present  seven 
clergymen  and  eight  lay  delegates  rej^resenting  the  parishes  in  Savannah,  Au¬ 
gusta,  St.  Simon’s  Island,  Macon,  Columbus  and  Clarkesville.  A  parish  in 
Springfield,  Effingham  county,  near  Savannah,  called  St.  Michael’s,  elected  de¬ 
legates,  bearing  the  names  Charlton  and  Guerrard,  who,  however,  did  not 
attend.  'I'he  C'hurch  in  Clarkesville  was  unfinished,  ‘being,’  in  the  language  of 
the  rector,  the  Rev.  E.  B.  Kellogg,  ‘but  little  else  than  a  skeleton.’  In  what 
building  the  meetings  were  held  is  not  stated.  ‘The  convention  met,’  the 
record  says,  ‘in  the  parish  of  Grace  Church.’ 


PLANNED  TO  ELECT  A  BISHOP 


“At  this  time,  it  was  resolved  to  elect  a  Bishop.  His  salary  was  fixed 
at  $2,000  of  which  Christ  Church,  Savannah,  was  to  pay  $1,000;  St.  Paul’s  Au¬ 
gusta,  $500;  Christ  Church,  Macon,  $300;  Trinity,  Columbus,  $100,  and  St. 
Simon’s,  $100.  These  little  parishes,  the  largest  having  only  150  communi¬ 
cants  and  the  smallest,  15,  evidently  wanted  a  Bishop  and  were  willing  to 
])ay  for  him.  The  delegates  from  Savannah  also  proposed  for  its  vestry  that 
a  new  parish  should  be  organized  in  that  city' to  be  known  as ‘St.  John’s  Church, 
and  the  rectorship  tendered  to  the  bishop-elect,  the  two  rectors  to  alternate  in 
their  resj^ective  churches  and  ‘thus  the  interests  of  both  be  united.’  The  con¬ 
vention  was  also  informed  that  the  organization  of  the  new  parish  was  already 
under  way,  and  that  it  woidd  pay  the  bishop-elect  as  rector  a  sum  sufficient  to 
make  his  total  salary  $3,000. 


“This  was  a  very  remarkable  incident,  a  division  to  ])romote  strength  and 
accomplish  in  harmony.  ‘There  is  that  scattereth  and  yet  increaseth.’  Would 
that  all  new  parishes  formed  as  the  residt  of  division  had  been  organized  in 
the  same  spirit. 


these  j)reliminaries  l)eing  com])leted,  the  convention  then  proceeded  to  an 
election  and  as  a  result  the  Rev.  Stephen  Elliott,  Jr.,  jvrofessor  of  the  Evi¬ 
dences  of  Christianity  and  of  Sacred  Literature  in  the  College  of  South  Caro- 


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lina,  was  unanimously  nominated  by  the  clergy  and  unanimously  confirmed 
by  the  laity.  Bishop  Elliott  was  consecrated  in  Christ  Church,  Savannah,  on 
Feb.  28,  1841,  by  Bishops  Meade  of  Virginia,  Ives  of  North  Carolina  and 
Gadsden  of  South  Carolina,  and  presided  at  his  first  convention  in  Christ 
Church,  Macon,  on  May  3,  1841. 

“Of  the  character  and  ability,  the  devotion  and  labors  of  Bishop  Elliott 
it  is  not  necessary  to  speak,  ‘He  being  dead  yet  speaketh.’  His  fame  still 
abides  in  the  diocese  and  in  the  whole  Church.  Of  distinguished  lineage,  with  a 
handsome  and  impressive  appearance,  with  a  mind  richly  endowed  and  stored 
with  large  learning,  a  disposition  benign  and  gracious,  a  temper  patient  and 
well  poised,  he  was  naturally  a  leader  among  his  fellows,  and  he  gave  himself 
and  all  that  he  liad  without  stint  to  the  Church. 

“'I'he  result  of  his  early  labors  manifested  itself  in  the  establishment  of 
new  congregations  among  the  scattered  Church  folk.  In  1850  there  were 
eighteen  clergy  at  work,  874  communicants  were  reported  and  eighty-eight 
])eople  confirmed — the  ratio  between  population  and  communicants  being  re¬ 
duced  to  one  in  1,036.  In  that  year  we  find  congregations  reporting  in 
Milledgeville,  Marietta,  Montpelier,  Athens,  Darien,  Glynn  county,  Rome,  St. 
Mary's,  Cass  county,  Atlanta,  Talbotton  and  among  the  negroes  on  the  Ogee- 
chee  river.  Missionary  work  was  also  being  carried  on  in  Lexington,  Wash¬ 
ington  and  Petersburg  and  among  the  plantations  on  the  Savannah  river.  I 
wish  I  could  take  time  to  read  copious  extracts  from  the  Bishop’s  addresses 
for  it  is  in  them  that  are  recorded  what  they  call  now-a-days  “the  human 
interest  stories’ — the  romance  of  the  Bisho])’s  work  and  travels. 

“Like  all  other  human  efforts  there  was  experiment  with  alternating  suc¬ 
cess  and  failure.  Some  of  the  plantings  survive  to  this  day  and  some  failed 
and  are  forgotten.  But  throughout  it  all  there  was  courage  and  patience  and 
faith  and  love. 

“In  one  of  the  Bishop’s  addresses  he  speaks  of  the  ‘period  of  gloom  and 
almost  hopelessness,  every  new  parish  must  encounter  and  overcome.’  ‘Upon 
the  first  introduetion  of  the  Church  into  any  neighborhood,’  he  writes,  ‘its 
novelty,  the  education  of  the  clergy,  the  desire  of  having  an  edifice  that  may 
ornament  the  rising  town,  the  hope  of  attracting  settlers  by  the  introduction 
of  a  form  of  worship  most  current  among  the  rich  and  educated  of  the  land, 
gather  around  it  a  number  of  adherents  who  are  seeking  their  own  and  not  the 
things  of  Jesus  Christ.’  But  then  the  scene  changes;  ‘the  novelty  is  past,  the 
worldly  objects  are  attained,  false  friends  fall  away,  persecution  begins  its 
bitter  work’  ....  and  then  comes  ‘the  struggle  of  faith  and  endurance.’ 
And  the  struggle  of  faith  and  endurance  is  still  on  and  will  continue,  but  let 
us  share  the  Bishop’s  faith  and  hope,  when  he  says  ‘if  her  ministers  and 
members  are  true  to  themselves,  the  struggle  ends  but  in  one  way,  the  com¬ 
plete  triuin})h  of  the  Church.’ 

EFFORT  TO  ESTABLISH  SCHOOL 

“1  can  only  refer  to  the  great  Bishop’s  heroic  effort  to  maintain  a  C  hurch 
school  for  girls  at  Montpelier,  near  Macon.  It  had  encouraging  success  at 
first.  It  did  a  great  work  for  the  Church.  I  have  known  personally  some 


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of  the  faithful  women  who  were  edueated  there  in  secular  knowledge,  Chris¬ 
tian  ])iety  and  Church  loyalty.  To  its  success  Bishop  Elliott  contributed 
much  of  his  time  and  labor,  most  of  his  means,  his  great  personality  and  his 
loving  zeal. 

“But  in  the  terms  of  worldly  success  it  finally  failed.  Just  another  one,  of 
whieh  there  have  been  so  many  in  our  Church. 

“It  is  impossible  not  to  mention  Bishop  Elliott’s  intimate  connections  with 
a  movement  which  we  must  recognize  to  have  been  probably  the  most  impor¬ 
tant  and  statesmanlike  enterprise  undertaken  by  the  Chureh  in  the  South  be¬ 
fore  the  war  and  none  more  so  since,  the  founding  of  the  University  of  the 
South.  The  three  distinguished  men  whose  names  are  most  closely  identified 
with  that  enterprise,  were  Bishoj^s  Otey  of  Tennessee,  Polk  of  I>ouisiana  and 
our  own  Elliott.  Three  men  of  great  vision  and  power,  each  by  his  qualities 
complementing  the  others.  The  first  allusion  which  I  find  in  the  convention 
addresses  of  the  Bishop  is  in  1858  in  which  he  says  that  on  July  4,  of  the 
previous  year,  ‘in  pursuance  to  a  resolution  come  to  during  the  session  of  the 
General  Convention  of  1856,’  he  attended  a  meeting  of  bishops,  elergy  and  laity 
on  Lookout  Mountain,  ‘for  the  pur}K)se  of  organizing  a  Southern  L'niversity.’ 

“In  1851)  he  served  with  Bishop  Polk  as  conunissioners  to  canvass  the  dio- 
eeses  to  procure  an  endowment  for  the  university.  They  began  at  New  Or¬ 
leans,  and  from  the  encouragement  they  received  from  the  planters  of  the 
Mississippi  valley  they  believed  that  three  millions  of  dollars  could — with 
time,  labor  and  ])atience,  be  raised  in  the  ten  dioceses  for  the  purpose. 

“In  1859  and  18(10  the  same  two  bishops  prepared  and  submitted  to  the 
Board  of  Trustees  ‘the  })lan  of  the  inner  life  of  the  University’  and  it  was  eon- 
fidently  ex])ected  that  the  plans  would  be  rapidly  consummated  and  the  school 
opened.  But  alas !  what  was  so  wisely  planned  and  so  ably  prosecuted  and 
so  nearly  successful  went  down  as  did  so  many  other  plans  in  the  tragic 
ruins  of  the  war  of  18()l-()5.  After  peace  came,  however,  other  brave  hearts 
laid  anew,  in  j^overty  but  in  faith  and  hope,  the  foundations  of  the  University, 
whieh  lives  now,  a  heritage  to  us  from  the  noble  souls  who  planned  it,  that  we 
may  with  like  courage  and  fidelity  maintain  and  strengthen  it  as  an  enduring 
monument  to  their  wisdom  and  unselfish  service  to  nation  and  Chureh. 

“The  ])eriod  of  the  war  had  its  tragie  record  in  Church  as  well  as  in  State. 
'I'lirough  storm  and  tempest  of  strife  and  bloodshed  the  Church  in  the  diocese 
lived  and  carried  on  its  ministry  of  praise  and  service  to  the  stricken  souls 
at  home  and  to  the  well  and  the  injured  and  dying  souls  at  the  front.  But 
time  fails  to  dwell  upon  the  details. 

“Bisho})  Elliott  and  Bishop  Polk  as  the  senior  Bisho])s  of  the  dioceses  in 
the  Confederacy  ‘took  it  upon  themselves’  as  they  said,  to  address  a  letter 
to  their  right  reverend  brethern  calling  for  a  meeting  of  bishops,  clergy  and 
laity  to  consider  the  duty  of  the  hour,  and  this  meeting  led  to  tlve  organiza¬ 
tion  of  the  General  Council  of  the  Protestant  E])iscopal  Church  in  the  Con¬ 
federate  States  of  America.  A  first  meeting  was  held  in  Montgomery,  Ala., 
on  .July  J,  18()2,  and  the  first  General  Council  assembled  in  Augusta,  in  this 


Church,  on  Oct.  16,  of  the  same  year.  Bishop  Elliott  being  then  the'  Senior 
Bishop  presided  at  this  convention  and  was  its  moving  spirit,  writing  also  the 
first  and  only  pastoral  letter,  issued  by  the  House  of  Bishops. 

The  war  ended,  the  two  churches,  North  and  South,  were  immediately 
united  in  General  Convention  in  1865,  because  both  in  North  and  South  the 
sense  of  unity  and  fellowship  was  stronger  than  the  sense  of  estrangement 
and  the  bitterness  engendered  by  war.  And  tor  that  we.  Churchmen,  can 
never  be  thankful  enough  to  our  God  and  Saviour,  and  to  those  noble  men 
who  under  Him  sacrificed  their  natural  feelings  and  brought  it  about. 

“Among  the  distressing  consequences  of  this  war,  undoubtedly  was  the 
death  of  Bishop  Elliott,  who  on  Dec.  21,  1868,  suddenly  fell  asleep,  in  the  sixty- 
first  year  of  his  age  in  the  prime  of  his  intellectual  and  spiritual  maturity. 

‘Turing  the  war  the  confirmations  reported  were  in  relation  to  the  num¬ 
ber  of  communicants  very  large,  in  four  years  from  1860  to  1864,  the  latter 
increasing  from  2,088  to  2,674.  But  in  1866,  the  confirmations  fell  off  and 
the  communicants  had  been  reduced  to  1,923.  This  was  possibly  due  to 
the  discouraged  condition  of  the  social  and  industrial  life  of  the  people  and 
may  be,  also  to  the  inevitable  slump  which  seems  to  follow  all  wars. 

“The  Rev.  John  Watrus  Beckwith  was  elected  the  second  Bishop  of  Georgia 
in  Christ  Church,  Macon,  on  May  10,  1867,  and  he  was  consecrated  in  St. 
John’s  Church,  Savannah,  on  Tuesday,  April  2,  1868,  by  Bishops  Green  of 
Mississippi,  Atkinson  of  North  Carolina,  Wilmer  of  Alabama,  Wilmer  of 
IvOuisiana  and  Young  of  Florida.  He  had  been  rector  of  Trinity  Church,  New 
Orleans,  and  had  served  as  a  chaplain  in  the  Confederate  army  on  the  staff  of 
Gens.  Hardee  and  Polk.  He  was  a  young  man  at  the  time  of  his  election, 
being  in  his  thirty-eighth  year. 

“He  began  his  episcopate  at  a  time  when  in  the  language  of  Bishop 
Thompson  who  preached  the  Memorial  sermon  in  1891,  ‘The  land  was  covered 
with  the  scars  of  battle,  the  people  were  in  mourning.  There  were  cities  of 
burned  and  blackened  ruins.  Impoverishment  was  the  rule.  But  with  a  sol¬ 
dier’s  courage  and  with  a  Christian’s  faith,  and  trust  in  God,  he  dared  the 
tremendous  task  of  the  Episcopate  under  these  circumstances,  and  equally  he 
dared  in  all  humility  and  utter  lack  of  self-consciousness  to  follow  and  stand 
in  Elliott’s  place  and  do  duty  for  God  and  His  Church.  A  strong,  self-con¬ 
tained,  reticent  man  he  yet  was  one  of  the  most  gentle  and  pitiful  of  men. 
A  cold  and  harsh  act  was  impossible  to  him.  He  was  a  fatherly  Bishoj)  and 
meekly  ruled  as  remembering  mercy.’  ‘Endowed  by  nature  with  a  marvelous 
voice  that  ranged  throughout  the  whole  realm  of  human  emotions,’  Bishop 
Beckwith’s  reading  was  so  impressive  that,  as  I  have  heard  people  say,  they 
crowded  to  hear  him  read  the  service  which  was  to  them  as  a  benediction. 

“I  came  to  Georgia  only  a  few  months  before  his  death  and  saw  him  only 
two  or  three  times.  But  not  only  immediately  after  he  passed  away  but  even 
yet  among  those  who  knew  him  I  hear  the  echo  of  his  eloquence  in  the  pulpit, 
and  his  beautiful  reading  of  the  service. 


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‘‘Among  the  first  S])ecial  interests  which  ap])ealed  to  the  Bisho])  was  a 
lionie  for  the  or])hans  of  Confederate  soldiers  to  he  under  the  care  of  a  Church 
sisterhood.  The  means  to  accomplish  this  were  furnished  him  by  a  Church¬ 
man  of  the  city  of  New  York,  the  late  William  H.  A2)])leton  of  the  well  known 
publishing  house.  The  Ap])leton  Church  Hojue  at  Macon  was  accordingly 
built  and  occu])ied  in  July,  1871,  under  the  cliarge  of  Sister  Margaret.  'I'liis 
remarkable  woman  was  assisted  in  the  management  and  education  of  the 
girls  by  Sister  Katherine  and  Sister  Mary.  Among  the  most  cheri.shed 
memories  of  my  life  in  Georgia  are  the  memories  of  the  friendship  of  these 
noble  women,  the  last  named  of  whom  still  survives.  During  the  e})iscopate 
of  Bishop  Beckwith,  there  was  carried  through  an  amendment  to  the  Diocesan 
law  by  which  all  vestrymen  were  required  to  be  ba])tised  and  confirmed  men. 
Previous  to  that  apparently  it  was  canonical  to  elect  any  man  who  was  ‘a 
su]q)orter  of  the  gos]:>el,’  as  the  old  charters  state  it.  I  am  sure  that  among 
these  vestrymen  were  many  fine  and  generous  men  who  served  in  this  ca])acity. 
1  knew  some  of  them.  And  it  nuiy  be  that  in  the  early  history  of  the  Diocese 
it  was  ])articularly  impossible  to  secure  enough  communicants  to  fill  these 
})ositions.  But  the  manifest  irregularity  of  having  men  vote  in  the  conven¬ 
tions  and  administer  the  affairs  of  the  CJuirch  who  were  not  acknowledged 
members  of  it  finally  under  the  Bishop's  leadershi])  led  to  the  adoption  of 
this  ])lain  and  common  sense  requirement. 

“When  Bishop  Beckwith  began  his  e])isco])ate  there  were  28  clergymen 
and  2,424  communicants  and  19  white  ])arishes,  and  a  number  of  other  })laces 
to  which  he  made  visits  and  in  which  services  were  held  more  or  less  regularly. 
Gnfortunately  the  records  are  so  imperfect  that  it  is  impossible  to  be  more 
accurate. 

“At  the  end  of  his  episcopate  there  were  5()  parishes  and  missions  reported, 
and  55  church  buildings,  39  clergy  and  .5,272  commnuicants.  In  1870  there 
was  one  communicant  to  419  peo]>le  in  the  State;  and  in  1890  one  to  348. 
Bishop  Beckwith  died  in  Atlanta  on  Nov.  23,  1890,  in  the  59th  year  of  his 
age  and  the  twenty-third  of  his  episco])ate. 

“It  was  a  year  and  three  months  before  his  successor  was  consecrated. 
Bisho})  Nelson  was  elected  at  a  convention  held  in  St.  Paul's  Church,  Macon, 
on  Nov.  11,  1891.  And  he  was  consecrated  in  St.  Luke’s  Cathedral,  Atlanta, 
on  St.  Matthias’  Day,  Feb.  24,  1892,  by  Bishops  Quintard  of  Tennessee,  Howe 
of  South  Carolina,  and  Lyman  of  North  ('arolina,  five  other  bisho])s  being 
present  and  assisting  in  the  laying-on-of-hands. 

“Many  of  those  here  knew  Bishoj)  Nelson,  foi’  he  was  our  Bisho]).  He 
came  to  us  in  the  full  vigor  of  his  manhood.  With  robust  physical  health 
;md  mental  vigor,  a  stalwart  and  handsome  presence  and  a  zeal  and  industry 
in  service  that  knew  no  limit,  he  gave  himself  to  the  Church  in  the  Diocese 
in  missionary  labors.  From  the  North  to  the  South  and  from  the  East  to  the 
West  he  went  incessantly,  establishing  missions,  building  churches  and  preach¬ 
ing  the  gos})el  of  Christ  and  His  Church.  The  best  proof  of  his  industry  and 
zeal  is  found  in  the  fact  that  in  fifteen  years  the  work  of  the  Diocese,  especiallv 
in  the  number  of  churches  which  must  be  visited  and  sustained  bv  his  en¬ 
couragement  and  assistance  outgrew  even  his  capacity  for  labor. 


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“He  was  especially  interested  in  and  energetic  in  carrying  on  and  enlarging 
the  work  among  the  negroes,  which  had  been  the  concern  of  both  his  ])rede- 
cessors.  If  there  were  any  mitigation  of  the  evil  of  human  slavery,  it  was 
found  in  the  solicitude  and  care  which  all  of  the  Bishops  of  Cieorgia  evinced 
in  their  efforts  to  minister  the  Gospel  to  the  black  people,  both  in  slavery  times 
and  after  freedom.  Slavery  among  our  forbears  in  itself  not  a  Christian  in¬ 
stitution,  was,  however,  permeated  by  Christian  feeling  and  softened  by  the 
Christian  conscience  of  the  Church’s  hisho})s  and  priests  and  by  devout  lay 
people,  whose  ownership  was  felt  to  be  a  solemn  trust.  And  if  we  who 
have  the  responsible  trust  of  ]^ropagating  the  Church's  mission  in  Georgia  in 
our  day  are  faithful  to  that  trust,  we  should  permit  no  changed  conditions  in 
the  relations  between  the  races,  to  make  us  indifferent  to  this  duty. 

“In  1907  the  Diocese  was  divided  and  the  diocese  of  Atlanta  set  off’  of 
which  Bishop  Nelson  elected  to  become  the  diocesan.  At  the  time  of  the 
division,  there  were  54  clergymen  on  the  roll,  and  8,524  communicants  and 
439  people  were  confirmed,  an  increase  since  1892  of  2,252. 


“Bishoj)  Nelson  died  Feb.  13,  1917,  in  the  sixty-fifth  year  of  his  age,  his 
e])iscopate  having  lasted  Just  25  years. 

“I  must  leave  it  to  some  later  chronicle  to  tell  the  story  of  the  last  15 
years,  since  the  Diocese  of  Georgia  has  betn  reduced  by  th.e  se])arati()n 
of  our  brothers  in  the  northern  part  of  our  State.  The  growth  of  the  two 
Dioceses  is  baldly  stated  by  the  fact  that  in  1921,  when  the  last  available  re- 
])orts  were  made,  there  was  75  clergymen  and  11,057  communicants  and  082 
persons  confirmed.  The  estimated  ])opulation  of  that  year  may  be  said  to 
have  been  2,925,800,  and  the  ratio  between  the  ])0]mlation  and  communi¬ 
cants  would  be  about  one  in  240.  This  is  not  indicative  of  great  relative 
strength  as  a  religious  communion.  But  at  any  rate  compared  to  the  ratio 
in  1823  of  one  to  3,000  it  is  an  evidence  of  growth,  which  may  indeed  cause  us 
to  take  courage  for  the  future. 


“It  would  have  been  im})OSsible  to  have  made  s])ecial  mention  of  all  the 
faithful  clergy  and  lay  ])eo})le  who  during  the  century  have  made  their  con¬ 
tribution  of  loving  service  and  faithful  labor  to  the  Ghurch’s  life  and  growth. 
Nor  is  it  possible  even  to  mention  some  of  them  by  name.  But  I  have  not  for¬ 
gotten  them.  Without  a  faithful  laity  and  clergy  a  Bishop  as  leader  is  hel]ffess. 
'I'he  record  of  the  juist  is  therefore  the  record  of  their  lives.  Their  names 
and  cures  are  hidden  in  the  dusty  /journals  of  the  })ast,  but  better  they  were 
written  in  the  Lamb's  Book  of  Life.  As  the  men  of  1823  said  in  their  ad¬ 
dress:  ‘They  (and  all  who  follow  them)  were  engaged  in  a  work  for  which 
posterity  would  bless  their  memory.’  We  do  bless  their  memory.  We  thank 
God  for  them  and  we  pray,  first  that  God’s  ]>eace  and  light  may  be  eternally 
theirs  and  second  that  we  too  in  our  day  and  generation  being  also  faithful 
unto  death,  may  pass  on  to  our  ])osterity,  a  richer  heritage  than  we  have  re¬ 
ceived  and  may  likewise  inherit  the  Crown  of  Life.  For  if  we  are  faithful 
we  may  confidently  believe  that  the  Lord  our  God  will  be  with  us  as  He  was 
with  our  fathers.’’ 


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The  View  Plan  &  Situation  of  the  Church  &  Church  Yard  of  Augusta 
in  Ceorgia  Erected  A  D  1741)  and  Humbly  Dedicated  to  the  Hon¬ 
orable  the  Trustees  for  establishing  the  Colony  of  Georgia  in  America 
by  the  Committee  appointed  for  erecting  thereof. 


The  Frame  of  the  Church  is  of  Wood  So  Strong  that  it  will  last  for  many  years;  between 
the  Studs  is  a  Wall  of  Clay  Eight  Inches  thick  Supported  in  the  center  of  that  Clay  with 
pieces  of  Wood  three  inches  thick  let  into  the  Studs  by  a  Groove. 

The  outside  is  rough 

cast  with  Dime  and  Gravil  appearing  like  Stone.  The  inside  Plaister’d  white  wash  d  and 
arch’d  the  roof  Supported  by  two  Columns  as  per  Plan  which  we  propose  to  have 
handsomely  ornamented.  We  do,  likewise,  when  we  are  able,  intend  to  underprop 
the  Church  with  Prick  as  it  appears  by  the  Plan  but  at  present  it  is  only  Supported 
with  I.ogs  of  lasting  oak,  which  is  the  only  part  that  does  not  answer  the  View. 


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GEORGIA  CENTENNIAL  PAGEANT 
THE  HISTORY  OF  THE  CHURCH 


(Ada])te(l  From  The  Augusta  Herald,  Ajrril  24-,  1923) 

One  of  the  most  beautiful  and  elaborate  spectacles  ever  witnessed  in  Au¬ 
gusta  was  the  historical  pageant  conducted  under  the  auspices  of  the  De¬ 
partment  of  Religious  Education  of  the  Diocese  of  Georgia  Monday  after¬ 
noon  in  St.  Paul’s  church  yard.  This  pageant  of  the  Georgia  (,’entennial  Con¬ 
vention  holding  its  sessions  now  in  Augusta,  was  designed  to  show  the  historic 
continuity  of  the  C’hurch  from  the  Day  of  Pentecost  down  to  the  jrresent  time, 
and  was  esjrecially  interesting  to  native  Augustans  by  reason  of  the  fact  that 
old  St.  Paul’s  held  such  a  vital  ])osltion,  not  alone  in  Church  history  but  in 
that  of  national  history  as  well. 

There  could  scarcely  have  been  found  a  more  ideal  location  for  the  pre¬ 
sentation  of  a  pageant  of  this  nature  than  St.  Paul’s  church  yard  with  its  un¬ 
dulating  green  sod,  its  beautiful  grou})ing  of  fine  old  trees  Just  now  bursting 
into  the  tender  green  of  new  leafage,  and  its  atmosphere  of  peace  that  the 
proximity  of  a  church  and  old  graveyard  seem  inevitably  to  convey;  and 
added  to  this  the  fact  that  it  was  upon  this  very  spot  that  some  of  the  scenes 
of  the  pageant  really  had  been  enacted  many  years  ago  made  the  spectacle 
doubly  interesting  to  all  who  witnessed  it. 

Within  the  churchyard  probably  one  thousand  or  more  })ersons  had  gathered 
in  anticipation  of  the  event  which  they  had  been  awaiting  for  several  weeks, 
and  when  the  magnetic  voice  of  Rev.  W.  W.  Memminger  of  Atlanta,  reader 
for  the  pageant,  sounded  strong  and  clear  across  the  open  s})aces,  and  the 
])layers  began  to  advance,  their  interest  in  the  proceedings  manifested  itself 
almost  to  a  breathless  pitch. 

The  opening  tableau  in  Group  I.  represented  the  Day  of  Pentecost,  and 
showed  the  Twelve  Apostles,  the  ^^irgin  Mary,  the  Holy  Women,  and  the 
Christian  Brethren,  kneeling  to  receive  the  Holy  Ghost,  and  the  scene  was 
made  most  effective  by  its  groupings,  and  the  long  flowing  costumes  of  the 
day. 

The  next  scene  represented  St.  Paul  at  Athens  and  showed  the  Apostle  ar¬ 
guing  with  some  of  the  Greek  philoso])hers,  and  winning  a  hearing  for  Chris¬ 
tianity. 

Following  next  were  two  character  scenes  representing  St.  Justin  Martyr 
and  St.  Chrysostom. 

'I'he  next  scene  which  represented  the  defiance  of  St.  Ambrose  to  the 
Em])eror  I'heodosius,  when  the  latter  demanded  to  enter  the  church  after 
he  had  caused  the  deaths  of  some  7,000  inhabitants,  was  very  capably  rendered 
and  was  one  of  the  best  scenes  in  this  episode. 

'I’hen  followed  more  character  scenes,  one  showing  the  three  British 
Bisho})s  at  Arles,  then  a  scene  of  St.  Monica  and  her  son,  St.  Augustine, 
after  which  came  St.  Jerome,  who  translated  the  Bible  from  Hebrew  and 
Greek  into  Latin. 


riic  next  seene,  rt ])resentinfr  St.  C'olomha  at  Iona,  followed  by  six  hlaeU- 
eowled  monks,  in  wliieli  St.  Coloinba  knelt  to  lead  them  in  ])rayer,  was  trnly 
realistie  in  its  ])ortrayal.  C’ominfi:  next  were  rt])resented  St.  Gregory  and 
St.  An^nstine  with  a  mimher  of  little  hare-foot  ehildren  as  the  vietims  of 
the  slave  market  in  Rome  under  the  eare  of  a  slave  driver  with  a  thonged 
whip.  These  were  the  first  fair-haired  ehildren  Gregory  had  ever  seen  and 
he  impiired  whenee  they  eanie.  .Vt  the  re])ly,  “They  are  Angles,”  he  re]>lied, 
“Xo,  Angels,”  and  straightway  made  ])lans  to  send  missionaries  to  England 
headed  hy  St.  Augustine.  'I'he  early  life  of  the  venerable  Bed2  who  is  known 
espeeially  for  his  eeelesiastical  history  and  translation  of  large  parts  of  the 
(duireh  serviees,  was  next  shown,  and  the  flute-like  voice  of  the  little  choir 
hoy  I'ose  sweet  and  clear  through  the  soft  afternoon  air  as  he  sang  the  Gloria 
taught  him  hy  his  choir  master. 

Other  espeeially  good  character  representations  were  those  of  St.  Boni¬ 
face;  King  Alfred,  regal  in  his  crown  and  purple  robes  of  state,  during  whose 
reign  the  Church  enjoyed  a  great  revival,  and  St  .Anselm  in  the  gorgeous 
robes  and  high  ])urple  hat  of  an  abbot. 

'rhe  next  seene  ])ortraying  the  Crusaders  was  very  spectacular,  when  the 
leader  of  the  Crusaders  advanced  on  a  beautiful  white  horse,  surrounded  hy 
his  men-at-arms  in  armor  and  drawn  lances.  The  first  e})isode  closed  with 
the  characterization 'of  St.  Francis  of  Assisi  and  then  Wycliffe  and  his  poor 
Preachers. 

'I'he  second  e])isode  portrayed  the  incident  when  England  repudiated  the 
Pa})al  supremacy  under  the  reign  of  Henry  GUI.  'Phis  was  a  very  elabor¬ 
ate  scene  showing  all  the  dignitaries  of  court  including  the  King  and  Queen, 
and  the  ladies-in-waiting  down  to  the  heralds,  the  pages  and  other  attendants, 
besides  Bishops  and  other  dignitaries  of  the  Church. 

Group  II.  showed  the  historical  landing  of  the  early  settlers  at  Jamestown 
when  they  were  met  by  the  Indians,  and  the  Holy  Communion  was  immediate¬ 
ly  celebrated  hy  the  Rev.  Robert  Hunt. 

Grou])  HI.  told  of  the  coming  of  the  Church  to  the  Georgia  colony  and 
opened  with  the  landing  of  General  Oglethorj^e  upon  Georgia  soil  and  his 
reception  hy  the  Indians  who  made  a  peace  treaty  with  him;  and  'ronio-chi- 
chi,  one  of  their  chiefs  presented  a  hufi'alo  robe  to  him.  Ouee-ka-chumpa 
ordered  his  braves  to  bring  gifts  of  skins;  the  Rev.  Henry  Herbert  addressed 
the  assembly;  John  Wesley,  'romo-chi-chi  and  ()glethor])e  had  a  conference; 
and  John  Wesley  organized  the  first  Sunday  school  in  the  world  at  Christ 
Churc-h,  Savannah. 

'Hie  scene  where  John  Wesley  called  the  little  children  and  taught  them  their 
Sunday  school  lessons  was  exce])tionally  j^retty  and  appealing,  and  the  scene 
representing  Charles  Wesley  teaching  the  savages  on  St.  Simon’s  Island  was 
also  most  eft’ective. 

'I'he  next  scenes  in  Grou])  1\'.  were  jieculiarly  interesting  to  mend)ers  of 
the  locality,  depicting  the  organization  of  old  St.  Paul’s.  'I’he  scenes  re])re- 
sented  a  gathering  upon  the  town  common — where  Broad  Street  is — for  the 


jnirpose  of  petitioning  England  to  send  over  a  minister  to  eare  for  the 
s])iritual  needs  of  the  little  floek.  Colonial  eostinnes  were  worn  in  this  seene 
and  were  most  effeetive  and  becoming. 

'Fhe  climax  to  the  pageant  -  or  rather  the  highest  point  of  interest  to  a 
vast  number  of  those  watching  it — was  the  arrival  of  the  Rev.  Jonathan  ('opp 
from  England  in  answer  to  the  petition  of  the  Augusta  Colonists,  which  ])art 
was  most  approju’iately  enacted  in  the  person  of  Rev.  G.  Sherwood  Whitney, 
the  beloved  rector  of  the  present  St.  Paul's.  When  he  appeared  in  the 
(piaint  long-tailed  shawl-collared  suit  of  black,  with  his  stove-pipe  hat,  his 
high  stock,  huge  shoe  buckles,  and  carrying  a  carpet  bag,  his  ])arishioners 
nearly  went  wild  with  enthusiasm,  and  burst  into  prolonged  applause,  de¬ 
spite  the  fact  they  were  requested  not  to  do  so  at  the  pageant.  And  with 
his  arrival  the  organization  of  St.  Paul’s  was  perfected. 

J'he  next  episode  represented  the  surrender  of  Fort  Cornwallis — upon 
the  site  of  which  the  pageant  actually  took  place — to  the  Americans  by  the 
British  after -the  tide  of  battle  had  wavered  over  this  section  from  time  to 
time.  The  contrasting  uniforms  of  the  opposing  soldiers  were  very  effective 
as  well  as  the  surrender  of  the  British  commander  to  the  American  commander. 

Episode  III.  of  this  group  showed  the  first  visit  of  a  Bishop  to  Augusta, 
and  a  very  pretty  scene  representing  the  confirmation  o^  a  large  group  of 
\  oung  girls  and  boys,  was  one  of  the  very  lovely  ones  in  the  pageant  when 
the  little  girls  fluttered  in  like  white  butterflies  in  the  old  fashioned  costumes 
and  the  hoys  in  quaint  black  suits. 

E])isode  depicted  the  organization  of  the  Diocese  in  1823  and  carried 
it  through  the  sending  of  the  Rev.  I.ot  Jones  to  Macon;  the  election  of  Bishop 
Elliott  as  first  Bishop  of  Georgia,  and  concluded  with'  a  most  effective  tableau 
representing  the  differences  between  the  soldiers  of  the  blue  and  the  gray 
transformed  into  brotherly  love  under  the  ministration  of  Bishop  Beckwith. 

The  final  tableau  ])resented  the  past  and  present  in  the  Church’s  history 
and  was  represented  by  three  beautiful  girls,  the  spirit  of  America  carrying 
a  huge  American  flag,  the  spirit  of  the  State  of  Georgia  carrying  the  State 
flag,  the  Spirit  of  the  Church  between  them  carrying  the  Cross.  These  were 
augmented  by  the  entire  pageant  cast  in  a  l)eautiful  ensemble  when  all  pre¬ 
sent  joined  in  singing  the  Doxology. 


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